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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Mark Di Ionno comes the next Great American Novel about the Great American Pastime-The Natural with echoes of Ford, Updike, DeLillo and Roth-two men from disparate worlds and their search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood.
Joe Grudeck is a living legend-a first-ballot Hall of Famer beloved by Boston Red Sox fans who once played for millions under the bright Fenway lights. Now, he finds himself haunted by his own history, searching for connection in a world that's alienated the true person behind his celebrity facade. He'll step back into the spotlight once more with a very risky Cooperstown acceptance speech that has the power to change everything-except the darkness in his past.

Horace Mueller is a different type altogether-working in darkness at a museum blacksmith shop and living in a rundown farmhouse on...
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